My site sirius-c-publishing.com was working fine until I found this morning that all of the links resulted in NOT FOUND errors. And I could not even login. When I entered the login information, I equally received a NOT FOUND error. My server support said I should address this issue directly with Drupal's support. I have upgraded the site from 4.7.0 now to 4.7.2 with the result that I was automatically logged on, but I get the same NOT FOUND errors all through the bank. I can't see 'Admin/Content' even.

I have closed and password-protected all my other Drupal sites as one was blown up completely recently and the database was corrupted. Now, I'm wondering if there are not people systematically hacking into my sites?

What can I do now? Must I reinstall the site from scratch? And how to prevent further problems of this kind?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Pierre.

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PierreFWalter’s picture

PierreFWalter commented

I am one step ahead. I just found out, when FTPing in the server, that the htaccess file had only 0 bytes, while the normal one has almost 3kb. And there was an htaccess.old file. I wanted to see what was the content of that new htaccess file that I had never placed (and even when doing the update to 4.7.2, I carefully avoided to overwrite the htaccess file), and I could not download it. It was impossible to FTP that file to my local computer. So I deleted it and put up the default Drupal htaccess file and all worked fine again.

And here, then, we are left with the question, who has done this, renamed the old htaccess file and put up a 0 byte and probably completely empty new one?

I appreciate any valuable comments and insights.
Thanks.
Pierre.

deekayen’s picture

deekayen commented
Project: DB Maintenance » Drupal core
Version: 4.7.x-1.x-dev » 4.7.2
Component: Miscellaneous » other
Priority: Critical » Minor
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magico commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Closing support request older than 1 month.